Nipper or wire-cutter



(No Model.)

J P NESSLE NIPPERS 0R WIRE CUTTER.

No. 444,764. Patented Jan. 13, 1891..

UNITED, STATES AENT OFFICE.

JOHN P. NESSLE, OF NEWARK, NEW' JERSEY.

NIPPER OR WlRE CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 444,764, dated January13, 1891.

Application filed September 30, 1890. Serial No. 366,665. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN P. NESSLE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Nipper-s r WVireOutters,of which the following is so full, clear, and exact a statement as willenable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains tomake and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,of which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved device. Fig. 2 isa front elevation of the faces of the jaws. Figs. 3 and 4 are similarviews showing modified forms of cuttingedge. Fig. 5 is a detail viewshowing the jaws open and showing a depression on the inside of each ofthe shoulders to which the jaws are secured, made to facilitate theinsertion of a piece of wire, nail, &c., when it is desired to use thenipper as pinchers.

The object of my invention is to provide a wire-cutter, by the use ofwhich the largest wire possible may be severed with the smallest sizecutter with the least expense of physical force.

It is well understood that to sever a wire it is not necessary that thewire be cut entirely through from side to side, and I have takenadvantage of this fact in producing a cutter which shall accomplish thedesired result and out large wire without necessarily increasing thesize of the jaws of the cutter and without lengthening the handles andincreasing the leverage of the handles of the cutter.

In the accompanying drawings, A A desighate the jaws; B B, thecutting-edges at each end of the edges of the faces of the jaws.

In Fig. 2 I show the cutting-edges beveled at each end.

In Fig. 3 I show one corner beveled at the upper jaw and thediagonally-opposite corner beveled on the opposite, while in Fig. 4 isshown one end of one edge curved inwardly, leaving the edge at the endslightly below the edge in the center of the curve and the opposite jawhas its edge out on a diagonal slant.

Any slight tendency of the wire to slip away will be partially overcomebv having one edge straight and positively prevented by the curvedrecess shown at a in Fig. 4.

It will be understood that the front edges in the center ofthe faces ofthe jaws are blunt, and they touch as the jaws are brought together,preventing the cutting-edges from dulling each other.

Having described the objects, uses, and ad vantages of my invention,what I believe to be new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, andtherefore claim, is

1. In a cutter of the character described, the'jaws and handles, incombination with the cutting-edges with which the jaws are provided, thesame having one or more slanting portions, substantially as described,and for the purposes specified.

2. In a cutter of the character described, the jaws and handlespivotally secured together and into position with relation to eachother, in combination with cutting-edges, one of which is slanted orcurved, substantially as described, and for the purposes specified.

3. In a cutter of the character described, the jaws and handlespivotally secured to gether and into position with relation to eachother, in combination with cutting-edges, one of which is curved at oneend and slanted at its opposite end, substantially as described, and forthe purposes specified.

4. In a cutter of the character described, the jaws and handlespivotally secured together and into position with relation to eachother, in combination with cutting-edges and centrally-depressedshoulders to convert the instrument into pinchers, substantially asdescribed, and for the purposes specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

JOHN P. NESSLE.

Witnesses:

ETHEL GRAY, AUGUST W. Rosnvenn.

